Thanks to their shared goals in regards to training and information, the IDE and the Sarah Oberson Foundation have worked together on numerous occasions. The Foundation is even housed on the IDE’s premises. As a result, once a year, in the month of November, an evening of reflection is organised by the Foundation, with the logistical and scientific support of the IDE.

On the 28th of September 1985, in the French-speaking Swiss village of Saxon, a 5-year-old girl named Sarah Oberson vanished without a trace. Despite a long and thorough search, to this day, Sarah has never been found, nor has any plausible answer been found to assuage her family’s grief.

Thanks to the public’s solidarity and generosity, the foundation bearing her name opened its doors in 1998. The Sarah Oberson Foundation (FSO) a non-profit organization, was created to improve the destiny of the suffering children. Its activities consist of sparking off and leading the dialogue about the mourning situations, disappearance, mistreatment and about any violation of children’s rights. The FSO is commited to engage the Swiss authorities, and collaborate with them, in order to contribute to the establishment of a quick and effective response to children’s disappearances all over the country, as well as an efficient support towards families. The work of the Sarah Oberson Foundation is based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).